Vernissage Solo Exhibition '' What lies beneath colour''

What Lies Beneath Colour What lies beneath colour is the first large-scale retrospective of the work by Saudi Arabian artist Dr. Sami Al Marzoogi (b.1945). The solo exhibition will be held at Hafez Gallery from the 24th of January - 3rd of March 2023. Curated by Basma Harasani. The exhibition brings together more than 150 drawings and paintings of the self-taught artist, who has a background in Radiology, produced between 1986 and 2022. While formally diverse, Al Marzoogi’s prolific oeuvre reveals the artist’s decades-long quest for uncovering the transformational potential of colour and the line through an expressive visual language that resides at the borderline between figuration and abstraction. Throughout the exhibition, realistic and abstract-looking landscape views, deconstructed human figures, patterns, organic motifs, and fluid colour explorations rendered in ink, watercolours, acrylics, pastels, and polychromes bring forth the artist’s keen sensibility, drawing skills, and ability to create abstractions of what…